“Remember that you can’t be one person in one place and a totally different person in another place. Right is right and wrong is wrong, no matter where you are.” I wonder what he would’ve said if he’d met Jacinta Trimalchio. When I was in high school The Great Gatsby was one of my favorite “required reading” books, and Leonardo DiCaprio is on my Pajiba10 list, so needless to say I’ve seen Baz Lurman’s theatrical take on the novel a few times as well. Amazon […]
A Retelling of Great Gatsby That Works
I first learned about Ms. Benincasa in 2008, when her Sarah Palin videos were making the rounds online. I can’t recall what happened to bring her to my attention a couple of years later, but I started listening to her “Sex and Other Human Activities” podcast (R.I.P.). Thankfully that led me to “Radio Dispatch” and my now-favorite daily news/cat stories/activism show “Citizen Radio”. In 2012, her first book, Agorafabulous!, was the first book I purchased for my first e-reader. So what I’m saying is, I […]
Agorafabulous! by Sara Benincasa
I’d never heard of Sara Benincasa before my sister lent me this book, but apparently she does stand up comedy. A lot of her act revolves around her struggles with anxiety, which is also the focus of this book. She attacks the subject with humor and frankness, and the result is an interesting, enlightening read. Benincasa started having anxiety attacks around the age of 10. The first really severe one occurred in a bathroom in Italy when she was in high school. This evolved into a […]